Psalm 142 A week ago I was driving with Annie to have dinner with a member of the church. I had been to this man’s house once but that was a while ago. His portable phone was not working so I called a friend to get directions. I recognized the field where we were to…
Psalm 25 As I was approaching the end of June, I knew I wanted to end the sermons on Acts and begin something new for the summer. I had preached on the Psalms of Ascent, psalms 121 to 133 in the summer of 2000 and decided to return to them this summer. The question was…
Psalm 137 Our daughter Caitlin and her husband John left yesterday morning. They flew back to Philadelphia in the US and will leave in August for Banda Aceh in Indonesia to work on economic development and public health issues for this area devastated by the tsunami this past December. It may be a year or…
Psalm 46 It has been a tough week. On Christmas Eve, I began to be sick and had to have Andy Prins take my place, reading my part in the joint French-English service. On Christmas morning I felt miserable and had to enlist the help of six people to lead different parts of the service….
Psalm 90 A man once had a conversation with God. He said, “God, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?” God replied, “Certainly not, my son, ask away.” “How long is a thousand years?” “For me,” God answered, “a thousand years is like a minute.” The man then said, “That’s fascinating. And,…